Stephen SKIFF [Parents] was born ¹ on 4 Feb 1685 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony. British Colonial America. He died ^{2, 3} on 4 Oct 1756 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony. British Colonial America. He was buried ⁴ in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony. British Colonial America. Stephen married ^{5, 6} Sarah LOTHROP about 1701 in Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Stephen had a will on 31 Aug 1756. His will was probated on 2 Nov 1756.

Other marriages:

GOHAM, Thankful

Sandwich Vital Records p. 507

Sarah LOTHROP ¹ was born ² about 1681. She died ³ on 14 May 1749 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She was buried in 1749 in Old Town Cemetery, Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. Sarah married ^{4, 5} Stephen SKIFF about 1701 in Dukes, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Stephen SKIFF [Parents] was born ¹ on 4 Feb 1685 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony. British Colonial America. He died ^{2, 3} on 4 Oct 1756 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony. British Colonial America. He was buried ⁴ in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony. British Colonial America. Stephen married ⁵ Thankful GOHAM on 27 Jul 1749 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Stephen had a will on 31 Aug 1756. His will was probated on 2 Nov 1756.

Other marriages:

LOTHROP, Sarah

Sandwich Vital Records p. 507

Thankful GOHAM was born ^{1, 2} on 25 May 1711 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She was christened on 25 May 1711 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 8 Dec 1801 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States. Thankful married ³ Stephen SKIFF on 27 Jul 1749 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

John CHIPMAN was born ¹ on 3 Mar 1670 in Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died ² on 4 Jan 1756 in Newport, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Brittish Colonial America. John married ^{3, 4, 5} Marcy SKIFF in 1691 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony. British Colonial America.

Marcy SKIFF [Parents] was born ^{1, 2} on 13 Nov 1671 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony. British Colonial America. She died ^{3, 4} on 12 Mar 1711. Marcy married ^{5, 6, 7} John CHIPMAN in 1691 in Sandwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts Bay Colony. British Colonial America.

Marcy was also known as Mary Mercy Skiffe.

Sandwich Vital Records p. 507
Given name is possibly Mary

Capt. Edward JOHNSON [Parents] [scrapbook] ¹ was christened ^{2, 3, 4} on 16 Sep 1598 in Saint George The Martyr, Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom. He died ^{5, 6, 7} on 23 Apr 1672 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Edward married ^{8, 9, 10} Susan MUNTTER about 1618 in Kent, England, United Kingdom.

Edward worked ¹¹ as joiner.

CAPTAIN EDWARD JOHNSON, OF WOBURN, MASS.,
AND SOME OF HIS DESCENDANTS.
By Hon. EDWARD FRANCIS JOHNSON, LL.B., of Woburn.

1. Capt. Edward  Johnson. author of the celebrated history of New Enaland, called the "Wonderworking Providence,"** was baptized in Canterbury, County Kent. England, Sept. 10 or 17, 1598, and died in Woburn, Apr. 23, 1672. His father was William Johnson.t
He was a man of mutch influence in the colony at large, held many offices, and no citizen of Woburn of his time was better known. At the first meeting of the commissioners for the settlement of the new town, He presented a plot or plan of the territory to be included within its limits, and was chosens the first recorder or town clerk,he was also active in founding the first church, and commanded the first military company of Woburn. He was the author of some unique lines at the beginning of the first volume of the Woburn town records. His verse-making, when corn-pared with the work of other writers of his time in this country, was no better, or no worse, than theirs. No fuller account of the origin and settlement of a town of equal age in New England has been given than that by him of Woburn in his "Wonderworking Providence."

He came to Charlestown with the first immigrants, and soon returned to England; and on his second voyage to New England, about 1636 or 1637, brought the members of his family, consisting of a wife, seven children, and three servants. He was famous as a surveyor and an early explorer of the forest territory of New England. and the eminent antiquary, John Farmer, in an article about him, published on June 16, 1819, in the " Columbian Centinel," and reproduced in Farmer and Moore's New Hampshire Collections, in 1822, says, "The fathers of New England are among the first entitled to our grateful recollections. To them belongs the honor of first exploring our country, and preparing it for the abodes of civilized life." Capt. Edward Johnson was appointed, in 1665, by the General Court, to make a map of the Colony, in conjunction with William Stevens. In 1672, after his death, the General Court passed an order regarding a chronicle of the early history of the Colony, which reads substantially as follows: "The Court considering how many ways the providence of God hath mercifully appeared in behalf of his people in these parts, since their coming into this wilderness; and us of this colony in particular, do judge it our duty to endeavor that a register or chronicle be made of tile several passages of God s providence, protecting of and saving from many eminent dangers, as well in transportation, as in our abode here, making provision beyond what could, in reason, have been expected, and preventing our fears many a time; that so our posterity and the generation that shall survive, taking a view of the kindness of God to their fathers, it may remain as an obligation upon them to serve the Lord their God with all their hearts and souls." The Court., therefore, appointed a committee "to make diligent inquiry in the several parts of this jurisdiction concerning anything of moment that has passed, and in particular of what has been collected by Mr. John Winthrop, Sen., Mr. Thomas Dudley. Mr. John Wilson, Sen., Capt. Edward Johnson, or any other; that so, matter being prepared, some meet person may be appointed by this court to put the same into form; that so, after perusal of the same, it may be put to press."* His will, dated the 15th of the 3d month, 1671, names wife Susan; eldest son Edward; sons George, William, Matthew, and John sons-in-law, James Prentice and .John Amee; daughters and daughters-in-law (they were not mentioned by name); the wife of son Edward (her name not given); grandchildren, Edward, son of his son Edward, son Matthew s eldest son (not mentioned by name), George, son of his son George, William and Edward, sons of his son William, John, son of his son .John, William, son of his son John, James Prentice. son of James Prentice, and John Amee, son of John Amee, Katherine, daughter of his son Edward, Katherine, daughter of his son George, Hester (or Esther), daughter of his son William, Rebecca, daughter of his son Matthew, Bethiah, daughter of his son John, Susan, daughter of his son-in-law James Prentice, Hannah, another daughter of James Prentice, and the eldest daughter (not mentioned by name) of his son-in-law John Amee. Tile inventory, returned May 11, 1672, gives as the amount, £706. 05. 06; homestead, £159; debts, £9. 10. 00; rents supposed to be due in England, £132; houses and lands in England, £800.

The will of his wife Susan, or Susanna, dated Dcc. 14, 1639, probated March 2, 1690-1, mentions her son John, her husband Capt. Edward .Johnson, and states that her son John, with whom she dwelt, had taken care of her since her husband was deceased, and was entitled to all, because site judged it was his due. She died March 7, 1689-90.

**Wonderworking Providence of Sion's Savior in New England." first printed in London, 1653 (imprint, 1654); modern edition by W. F. Poole, Andover, Muss, 1867. There have been varous critical estimates of this work. For a list of references and a brief account, see Cutter s ‘ Bibliography of Woburn," 1892.. For an explnuation of the connection of Sir Ferdinando Gorges with this work, See preface of Hon. James Phinney Baxter to his monograph on Gorges (Boston, 189(3), vol. ii., pp. 175, 185.

t There is no doubt of this fact, but whether the persons assigned by various writers are his sons, other than Capt. Edward,  seems problematical. The records of Canterbury, England, contain the names of many persons by the name of Johnson other than those apparently connected with the family of this Wiiliam Johnson, and in the absence of better evidence than any yet found it does not seem wise to make any further statements at this time.

*Compare W. R. Cutter, in Hurd's hist, of Middx. County, vol. i, p. 339, etc.; "Winchester Press," April 26, 1901, and many other authorities.

Printed from NEHG Register, Volume 59, January 1905, New England Historic Genealogical Society & Broderbund Software, Inc., Banner Blue Division, March 10,2001

Susan MUNTTER [Parents] was born ¹ in 1597 in Canterbury, Kent, England, United Kingdom. She was christened ² on 5 Oct 1597 in Dover, St Mary's, Kent, England, United Kingdom. She died ^{3, 4} on 7 Mar 1689 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Susan married ^{5, 6, 7} Capt. Edward JOHNSON ⁸ about 1618 in Kent, England, United Kingdom.

Susan had a will ⁹ on 14 Dec 1689 in Woburn, Middlesex, Mas.

Extracted from Christening records

Thomas WISWALL Twin [Parents] [scrapbook] ¹ was christened ^{2, 3} on 20 Sep 1601 in Warrington, Lancashire, England. He died ^{4, 5} on 6 Dec 1683 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Thomas married ⁶ Elizabeth BERBAGE ⁷ in 1632 in Great Packington, Warwickshire, England.

Thomas immigrated on 26 Aug 1635.

Other marriages:

BURBIDGE, Isabella

Probably arrived with his son Enoch, August 16, 1635 on the ship "James" with the Rev. Richard Mather and his company.
Source: "The Wiswald Genealogy" by Joseph M. Wiswald 1961

THOMAS WISWELL (Ralph, John probably) was baptized 20 September 1601 at Warrington, Lancashire. He and his twin brother Jolm both came to New England and settled in Dorchester as early as 1635. He was early made a freeman, was a proprietor of Dorchester and, with his wife Elizabeth, was a member of the church about 1636. He was a selectman of Dorchester in 1644, '45, and '52. On 5 June 1664 he was dismissed from the Dorchester church for the beginning of a new church at Cambridge Village (now Newton) and was chosen as ruling elder there. On 25 September 1657, he deeded his houses and lands in Dorchester to his son Enoch, who was about to marry. Thomas Wiswell married first, it is said, Elizabeth Burbage of Great Packington, Warwickshire. She was the mother of all his children and died between 1665 and 1669. Secondly, he married Isabell (Muston) Farmer, sister of the Reverend Thomas Muston of Wykin and afterwards of Brinldow in England. She was the widow of John Farmer of Anseley, Warwickshire. Thomas Wiswell was excused from military training on 6 October 1663, but had to pay 5 shillings per year to the military company. He was 62. He died on 6 December 1683, aged 82, and she died on 21 May 1686 at her son's home in Billerica.

This is an Inventory of the Estate of Elder Thomas Wiswall of Cambridge Village who decead. 6 December 1683 Apprized by us the subscribers.

His wearing cloaths both linnen & woollen 006 07 00
In the lower Lodging Room
A featherbed, a feather bolster, 2 feather pillows a straw bed 005 00 00
& Rug, a blankett & bedstead with curtains altogether
4 pr of old sheets, 4 pillowbeers 001 15 00
2 Table cloaths, 11 napkins, 4 Towells 001 00 00
a Table, a form, 6 joynd stools, a little Table 001 05 00
A great chair, 2 small chairs, 6 cushions 000 08 00
A chest, 2 Thinks, a warming pan 000 15 00
A small cupboard, 4 bibles, 4 Psalm books, 6 other small 001 08 00
books
2 old brushes a little looking glass 000 02 00
2 old hogsheads, a tub, 2 trays, 2 milk bowls 2 small bear
barrells 000 08 00
An old bridle & saddle, a pannell 000 10  00
A churns, 2 sacks, a grid Iron 000 05 00
A dwelling house & barn with a small orchard to It & about
two hundred & seven acres of upland & meadow wX of yr is 220 00 00
about six acres of ye land yE is broak up
Abt a yeer & half service in a man servant 008 00 00
A pcceii of stone fence abt ye aforesd land 007 00 00
The Irons to the pump 000 05 00
Apprised the 14. Decemb 1683 by us
Thomas Prentice
James Trowbridge
William Bond

Decemb' 18. 83
Sworne in Court of Noah Wiswall & Ebenezar Wiswall Adams

Jonathan Remmington Clericus

Ref.: Wiswall Genealogy; V.R.; Pope's Pioneers of Massachusetts; Savage; N.E.H.G.S. - 126:298

Elizabeth BERBAGE ¹ was born in 1604 in England. She died ² in 1665/1666 in Newton, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Elizabeth married ³ Thomas WISWALL Twin ⁴ in 1632 in Great Packington, Warwickshire, England.

Elizabeth Berbage (1604-1666) was born in England, where - in 1632 - she married Thomas Wiswall (1601-1685). Together they had ten children, all but one of whom was born in America. Elizabeth, Thomas, and their oldest child, Enoch, came first to Dorchester, Massachusetts on 16 Aug 1635. In 1654, the family moved to the Cambridge, Massachusetts area, where Thomas is honored as a "First Founder" of the present day Newton. Elizabeth was the first wife of Thomas Wiswall. Child: Noah Wiswall (1638-1690).

INCONSISTENCIES: Ancestry.com records show Elizabeth dying in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts, but this does not fit the family chronology. Clearly she died in Newton.

BURIAL: Elizabeth would have been buried in the only cemetery in Newton at that time, the Old East Parish Burying Ground. No stone has been found, perhaps because the oldest American gravestones often deteriorated.

SOURCES: Ancestry.com has two records for Elizabeth: a "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900" record, and a "U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970" record. Information also appears in "The Great Migration," under "Biography of Thomas Wiswall."

Edward JOHNSON [Parents] was born ^{1, 2, 3, 4} on 19 Mar 1658 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died ⁵ on 7 Aug 1725 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Edward married ^{6, 7, 8} Sarah WALKER on 12 Jan 1686 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Other marriages:

GARDNER, Abigail

Sarah WALKER was born on 6 Mar 1670 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died ¹ on 31 May 1704 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Sarah married ^{2, 3, 4} Edward JOHNSON on 12 Jan 1686 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Edward JOHNSON [Parents] was born ^{1, 2, 3, 4} on 19 Mar 1658 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died ⁵ on 7 Aug 1725 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Edward married ⁶ Abigail GARDNER in Apr 1704 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Other marriages:

WALKER, Sarah

Abigail GARDNER [Parents] was born ¹ in 1665 in Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Abigail married ² Edward JOHNSON in Apr 1704 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Other marriages:

THOMPSON, James

Ebenezer JOHNSON [Parents] was born ^{1, 2} on 29 Mar 1660 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died ^{3, 4} on 17 Mar 1737 in Burlington, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Ebenezer married ^{5, 6} Sarah WINN on 13 Apr 1691 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Sarah WINN was born ^{1, 2} on 9 Sep 1666 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died on 23 Oct 1733 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Sarah married ^{3, 4} Ebenezer JOHNSON on 13 Apr 1691 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Lieut. Seth WYMAN was born ¹ on 3 Aug 1663 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died ^{2, 3} on 26 Oct 1715 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Seth married ^{4, 5, 6} Ester JOHNSON on 17 Oct 1685 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

Ester JOHNSON [Parents] was born ^{1, 2} on 13 Apr 1662 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. She died ^{3, 4} on 31 Mar 1742 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Ester married ^{5, 6, 7} Lieut. Seth WYMAN on 17 Oct 1685 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America.

given name may be Hester

Benjamin JOHNSON [Parents] was born ¹ on 15 Aug 1666 in Woburn, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. He died ² on 22 Apr 1733 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Benjamin married ³ Sarah WALKER on 22 Nov 1699 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.

Sarah WALKER was born ¹ on 8 Jan 1676 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay, British Colonial America. She died on 17 Jan 1749 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts Bay Colony, British Colonial America. Sarah married ² Benjamin JOHNSON on 22 Nov 1699 in Billerica, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States.